Castletea

Local queer artist with a passion for creating works that resonate with people like myself and gives some hope and inspiration that none of us are alone in this.

Website: https://ko-fi.com/castletea

Alexis Lotz    

Alexis Lotz is an artist based in Missoula, MT. She is a recent graduate of the University of Montana, where she received a BFA in Painting and Ceramics with a minor in Art History. Her paintings and ceramics explore a variety of topics like religion, love and femininity.

Instagram: @alexisnlotz

Alison ‘Rose’ Liwosz

I am a local non-binary university student passionate about public education in the face of those in power who want us to be stupid.

Elise Rose   

Elise is a multimedia queer artist and illustrator located in Missoula. Her love for the abstract and for the natural world collide in her artwork, which mostly centers around insects and colorful portraits. With a crayon in one hand and a beetle in the other, Elise has been creating artwork since she was a small and unruly child. Her favorite mediums include gouache, acrylic, and digital. She also works outside of traditional illustration by including textiles and linograph printing into some of her paintings and 3D artwork. Her dream is to one day become a tattoo artist and biologist.

Instagram: @mosquitomedic

Website: https://annaliserose77.myportfolio.com/home

   Arielle Smith

Arielle Smith compulsively creates art as a palliative to, and exaltation of, the human condition. Her intellectual and creative work emerges from decades of engagement with people around the world, observing inspiring cultural practices and tenacious injustices, the mutual embedment of people with their environments, the repressive and liberatory potentials of living in community, the simultaneous circumscription and boundlessness of love, and power, and creativity… Her artistic adventures map onto a similarly eclectic constellation of abstract and embodied themes. A recovering academic, she now wryly applies her transnational experience and training in medical anthropology as a consultant and Jane-of-all-trades (behind the scenes) at The Last Best Store, in her hometown of Missoula, MT. Wanderlust tenuously tamed, she strives for rootedness and reciprocity with the land and its many peoples. In the interstices of work, parenting, and overthinking she dabbles in mixed media art and cottage industry crafts, DJs, and makes botanical skincare products. She likes collaborative art-music-community projects, is ambivalent about enumeration without semicolons, and dislikes writing bios.

Instagram: @presentsofmind.design

Bridget ‘Jet’ Burns

I like to convey moments of femininity through my work, whether it’s vulnerability or joy I am so inspired by women and queer people expressing that power they hold and try to bring that into my art.

    Ivy Upton

Hello, I’m Ivy! I was born and raised here in Montana. I like to dabble in digital art sometimes, especially to make sapphic-themed sticker designs, keychain designs, and art of original characters. A lot of my art is created for the purpose of adding some sapphic representation to the world.

Instagram: @Ivvyoni

Kaitlynn Radloff  

Kaitlynn Radloff is an artist, educator, and musician living in Missoula, MT. Kaitlynn has been a public school educator for the last decade and is currently working as a teaching artist. She runs Sabertooth Studio, which started in 2020 as a community-focused print shop fundraising for local organizations that support Queer and BIPOC youth in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Over the years, it has grown into a studio focused on activating people and spaces, educating communities about social and environmental issues, and creating work that celebrates the natural world. Kaitlynn is the Co-President of the National Art Education Association’s LGBTQ+ Interest Group and is a 2025 recipient of an Arts Missoula Grant, which will fund Sabertooth Studio’s Mobile Print Shop.

Instagram: @sabertoothstudio

Website: Sabertooth Studio, LLC

   Maia Hangas

UmamiMami Creations is a Missoula based, queer owned and Operated, small art business. In more recent years, Maia has been focusing on art that’s been compared to Lisa Frank, as well as art that has heavy elements of feminine whimsy.

Website: www.ko-fi.com/umamimamicreations

  Misty Gaubatz  

Misty Gaubatz lives in Missoula with her wife and child. She likes music, Mexican food, and you.

   Myth Deck

Myth Deck is a genderfluid and bisexual artist who explores identity and memory. Particularly utilizing introspection and metaphorical portraits, Myth’s painted works expand upon understanding of their own life as a queer person. The effects of marginalization are displayed by figures on the canvas in strange yet directly representational environments. Myth uses expressive brush strokes and bold saturation to allude to an emotive aspect of their experiences, encapsulated in a surreal scene that blurs reality and the vagueness of memory.

Instagram: @my.ulosis

Rebecca Steele

I am a self-taught artist who began painting in 2017. My work primarily focuses on the human form, especially women of various body types, captured in vibrant colors through an impressionist style. Themes of body positivity, love for the feminine form, queer identity, softness, confidence, and self-love permeate my art. I explore these concepts with a deep connection to my own experiences of neurodivergence and synesthesia, infusing my paintings with personal meaning and what I see as universal truths.

The unique color palettes and diverse subjects in my work set it apart, resonating with those who seek art that celebrates individuality and inclusivity. While I have never exhibited my work or taken on commissions, the response from viewers on my social media—particularly women who have shared that my art has boosted their confidence and made them feel beautiful—has been both humbling and inspiring.

With no formal education in art, I’ve relied on my intuition and passion, and despite the challenges, I’ve found that my self-taught journey has shaped a raw, genuine approach to creating. I’m committed to expressing the idea that all bodies are good bodies and that self-love and acceptance are transformative powers.

Instagram: @punky.palette.pixie

Renee LaMie

Renée LaMie is a poet and artist living in Missoula, MT.

I am drawn to serial and surreal storytelling, sharing my own experience through visual and written art forms. The paintings here tell a story of frost and ice, and an albatross off camera. I used thread as an element of texture, but to also subtly say “we sometimes weave with dangerous thread.” I understand firsthand how our minds can easily become tangled. So I snipped the lines that made me trip and placed them in ice.

 Tristan Boyar    

Tristan Boyar is an artist and printmaker living and working in Missoula, MT, alongside his husband, Dante. After graduating with B.A.s in Art and German from the University of Montana in 2023, Tristan started his own small printing press, The Gastropod Press, and has been producing work since. Through his work, Tristan seeks to use the vast tradition and techniques of printmaking as a medium to explore our own connections to our surrounding environments, both natural and constructed.

Instagram: @the_gastropod_press

Website: https://www.thegastropodpress.com/